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The biggest people moves this week
Insurance Times rounds up the most significant appointments, hires and leadership developments from 9 to 13 November 2026
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Aviva’s UK personal lines book soars while commercial GWP drops in first nine months of 2026
’In the UK, premiums are up 28%, boosted by our home insurance partnership with Nationwide and the great progress we are making with DLG,’ says chief executive
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Intact to merge UK and EU specialty businesses
’Combining our UK and European speciality lines businesses and creating a UK regulated branch will make the placement of European risks easier for brokers,’ says chief executive
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Pen secures new social housing capacity deal with £300m premium potential
’Long-term, sustainable capacity is hugely important in a specialist market like social housing,’ says managing director
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Average home and business insurance payout hits record £10,000
’It’s vital that new homes are built to withstand increasingly frequent extreme weather and that we work together to improve the long-term resilience of our homes and businesses,’ says director of general insurance and international policy
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Axa UK joins Pool Re scheme to expand SME terrorism cover
’Axa’s decision to include terrorism cover as standard within selected digital SME products is another important step towards closing the UK’s terrorism protection gap,’ says chief underwriting officer
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NBS launches new directors’ and officers’ insurance proposition
’We’re continuing to expand our product range to give brokers access to a wider range of cover for their clients,’ says managing director
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Allianz UK serves up new hotels and restaurants proposition
’We’ve looked closely at where the pressures really bite and shaped the cover around them, so it reflects how hotels and restaurants actually operate rather than relying on a generic policy wording,’ says head
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Broker demand for policy flexibility more than doubles in commercial motor
’Fleet businesses increasingly expect insurers to respond quickly when vehicles, drivers or operational requirements change because delays can create unnecessary disruption and administrative pressure,’ says deputy chief executive
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Allianz UK secures capacity deal with digital insurance broker
’It’s a strong example of how we’re using digital trading to make our products available to more businesses,’ says head
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Fleet provider promotes for new business development head
‘The company is very focused on its ambition of growing to 5,000 vehicles and the team and I will be working hard to achieve this goal,’ says new head
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Brokers post healthy schemes profits amid uneven growth picture
Insurance Times analyses exclusive data from broker schemes software provider SchemeServe to discover how major insurance schemes have performed for brokers over the past six months
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